Thirty-six years ago, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, one-time CIA informant and Panamanian president, was captured and taken to the United States to face trial on charges of drug-trafficking and money laundering. At that time, around 24,000 US troops and Navy Seals commandos undertook ‘Operation Just Cause’ that involved landing on Panamanian soil on December 20, 1989, before arresting Noriega, who was installed by the American regime of George Bush Sr, and flying him back to the US to stand trial.